Silver Linings by Tim Pratt
"Cloudmining is a rough business at the best of times, mostly because everyone on the ground wants to kill you, but I had more particular problems…."
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=55339
Silver Linings by Tim Pratt
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Incubus by Tim Pratt
Read by Chris Reynaga
Every forty or fifty years the incubus and the succubus got together to catch up. This time they met in a quiet little bar, and the incubus said, “Yeah, it’s been hard these past few years. I did porn for a while, but these days, with Viagra and everything, it doesn’t matter what kind of a woodsman you are, because anybody can pop a pill and perform superhuman feats of sexual prowess.”
The succubus nodded in sympathy, invisible serpents twining in her hair. “I hear you. There’s easy money in internet porn, but it’s no good for me, I miss the personal connection. But you can still do the gigolo thing, right?”
Source: http://podcastle.org/2009/10/30/podcastle-miniature-40-incubus/
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The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles By Kij Johnson
The heroic quest of a single cat.
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=37684
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Sixth Shotgun by Louis L’Amour
"The Sixth Shotgun" is Leo Carver’s story, and if the town of Canyon Gap has anything to say in the matter, it’s going to be a very short tale indeed, as Leo has been convicted of murdering two men and faces death by hanging.